Ah, but if we want to learn from history, we need to be able to discuss where this kind of thinking has led in the past. Including the KKK, Hitler, and Stalin.
If they can teach us to feel threatened whenever we think about refugees, if they can teach us to close our hearts, if they can teach us to approve when they are mean to people, they are winning and the Kingdom of God is losing. If we believe in loving our neighbors as ourselves, spreading false images about the poor and vulnerable in order to encourage people to close their hearts isn't doing that.
Kids in cages. Lots and lots of evidence that this happened. Dumping families on the streets in the middle of the night isn't this bad, but it's the same kind of "let's decide not to care about these people - and play politics with them".Josh wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:17 pm When you say things like "kids in cages" and "families forcibly separated", you are simply repeating partisan talking points. We both know that kids weren't put in cages. They did have to figure out what to do with unaccompanied minors. Simply releasing them into the general American public is not a good idea, particularly with overwhelming evidence of trafficking.
And yes, families were forcibly separated. And Trump Administration officials even kind of bragged about that, saying it might send a message.
Not partisan talking points, simple statements of fact. Is it partisan to say we shouldn't throw kids in cages in ways that violate our own laws? As Christians, do we harden our hearts to this kind of thing, or do Christians have compassion?